In celebration, our entire site is now a veritable sea of Cookie Monster GIFs! Well, sorta ... were swapped with unique Cookie icons. Go ahead and check it out for yourself.

Meanwhile, PBS Kids just premiered Cookie Monster's first movie, The Cookie Thief, and, in an effort to promote it, also came up with this ingenious gif generator ... YOU. ME GOING TO EAT IT ...

Close observers may have seen this coming; on June 18, Sesame Street tweeted, “Cookie Monster: Me just met you. Dis is crazy ... Let’s get skim milk going, we’ll start this snack going ...

When Mike Bowers posted a video of a rock that looks weirdly similar to Cookie Monster from Sesame ... How did it feel to go viral? “It was crazy,” Bowers told CBC Kids News.